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/ 20 June 2006

Sudan will not be ‘recolonised’

Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir voiced strong opposition to the deployment of Western troops in war-torn Darfur, vowing his country would not be "recolonised", state media reported on Tuesday. "I swear that there will not be any international military intervention in Darfur as long as I am in power," al-Beshir was quoted as saying.

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/ 20 June 2006

Guards, employers on the brink of agreement

Striking security guards and industry employers were on the brink of signing a wage deal to end the three-month strike early on Tuesday morning. Talks were still in progress shortly before 6am as the parties worked through the night in deliberations around talks mediated by the Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration in Parktown, Johannesburg.

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/ 20 June 2006

Tough day at the office for African teams

Spain joined the happy band of qualifiers for the second round of the World Cup on Monday but were made to work hard for their 3-1 victory over 2004 African Nations Cup champions Tunisia. It was a tough day at the office for Africa as the joy of Ghana’s win over the Czech Republic evaporated as Switzerland beat Togo 2-0.

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/ 20 June 2006

Elderly man stung to death by ‘vicious’ bees

An elderly man who was stung to death bees at a village near Butterworth at the weekend was probably taking part in a cultural ceremony to remove dangerous African honey bees. Eastern Cape police said on Monday that Victor Ndoda Nyembezi (73) had been part of a group of about 100 people who were trying to remove a hive from a homestead in Mgomanzi village on Friday.

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/ 20 June 2006

On the front line of someone else’s war

The soldiers rounded up the villagers at first light. The Taliban had just pummelled the new Afghan National Army base at Gaza in the Arghandab Valley, a notorious rebel nest in Zabul province. Now the soldiers wanted to know who was sheltering them. They grabbed Jamal Ludin as he left for morning prayers.

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/ 20 June 2006

Losing learners to violence

The last thing Elijah Mathibela expected when his phone rang on Easter Monday was to be told of deaths in the community. The broken bodies of three young women were lying behind a shopping centre in Mamelodi West, Pretoria. They were murdered. Mathibela, the principal of Jafta Mahlangu High, could not help but wonder whether they were among his charges.

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/ 20 June 2006

Wall Street rookie turned SA bear

Bear Khumalo adopts what can only be called an inverted pyramid approach to empowerment and a maverick, high-risk approach to investments. His modus operandi is to focus on sectors that are out of favour with investors and thus "do not attract the usual [empowerment] suspects", consolidate assets in these sectors.